What to do about libidn?

[Joseph Myers]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > Given that glibc's libidn add-on is not itself a public ABI or API,
> > dlopening an external library would seem a reasonable way of implementing
> > that getaddrinfo functionality.
> 
> Would you prefer us to do that, or to drop AI_IDN support completely?

I don't have a view on that, beyond that it's not normal for us to drop a 
supported ABI for existing binaries.

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Joseph S. Myers
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